Moderators (requests and notices)

So where's marcom's ban for blatant racism?

He's been both banned before and warned before. If I'm not doing either it's because no-one is reporting it.

By and large I also prefer that jerks are held to account by their peers and are not silenced, as they tend to think there's no issue with what they're saying beyond some set of rules that are meant to be broken.

So unless it's got to the point that strong objection is achieving nothing, I wouldn't ban on a couple of isolated reported posts.

If it's aimed at a female readership, why isn't it in the ladies forum?

Is that a serious question?

Ideally the ladies forum shouldn't need to exist. It only does because the levels of implicit sexism is so high that they've felt that it is worth segregating themselves such that they are able to control a very small piece of the forum and at least stand a chance of keeping it free from sexism.

To say that they have no right to post anything anywhere else is pretty bad, no content should be segregated by sex or gender at all. But if it's going to happen let only the girls decide the bits that they want to do it to.

Boys really have no say in whether to segregate girls, only the girls do.

Sorry bodie, I know you and know you're not sexist. But that comment gives off a nasty whiff and I'm sure some will have read it and thought "Yeah!", but actually "No!".